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Prizes for the 2020 Review

RaemonFeb 20, 2022, 9:07 PM

94 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

[Question] Generalization of the Solomonoff Induction to Accuracy—Is it possible? Would it be useful?

PeterLFeb 20, 2022, 7:29 PM

2 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Practitioner: Novice

The Guild of the RoseFeb 20, 2022, 7:01 PM

25 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(guildoftherose.org)

[Question] 2 (naive?) ideas for alignment

Jonathan MoregårdFeb 20, 2022, 7:01 PM

3 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Review: G.E.M. Anscombe’s “Modern Moral Philosophy”

David GrossFeb 20, 2022, 6:58 PM

24 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

Russian x-risks newsletter winter 21-22, war risks update.

avturchinFeb 20, 2022, 6:58 PM

29 points

14 comments3 min readLW link

Anticorrelated Noise Injection for Improved Generalization

tailcalledFeb 20, 2022, 10:15 AM

2 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Breaking the SIA with an exponentially-Sleeping Beauty

0nautFeb 20, 2022, 8:03 AM

8 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

Books Worthy of Integration

Roven SkyfalFeb 20, 2022, 8:03 AM

15 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

How Many (Smallish) Organic Compounds Are There?

chemslugFeb 20, 2022, 4:43 AM

22 points

10 comments5 min readLW link

Microcovid Becoming Less Useful

jefftkFeb 20, 2022, 3:50 AM

59 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] How to estimate confidence intervals for fermi estimate?

SønderjyeFeb 20, 2022, 1:26 AM

3 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

12 interesting things I learned studying the discovery of nature’s laws

Ben PaceFeb 19, 2022, 11:39 PM

268 points

40 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

What The Foucault

adamShimiFeb 19, 2022, 10:48 PM

39 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Is veganism morally correct?

FinalFormal2Feb 19, 2022, 9:20 PM

−4 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Observation

LoganStrohlFeb 19, 2022, 6:47 PM

84 points

23 comments3 min readLW link

Alignment researchers, how useful is extra compute for you?

Lauro LangoscoFeb 19, 2022, 3:35 PM

8 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Mechanism design / queueing theory for government to sell visas

RyanCareyFeb 19, 2022, 12:33 PM

5 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Thoughts on Dangerous Learned Optimization

peterbarnettFeb 19, 2022, 10:46 AM

4 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

SPARC Applications Are Now Live!

CitizenTenFeb 19, 2022, 2:15 AM

14 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Dallas February LessWrong/ACX Meetup

nomagicpillFeb 19, 2022, 1:28 AM

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

HCH and Adversarial Questions

David UdellFeb 19, 2022, 12:52 AM

15 points

7 comments26 min readLW link

Encouragement to Instill Confidence?

ZviFeb 18, 2022, 10:30 PM

16 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Misc thematic links

HoldenKarnofskyFeb 18, 2022, 10:00 PM

12 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(www.cold-takes.com)

Abundance and scarcity; working forwards and working backwards

QuinnFeb 18, 2022, 7:05 PM

28 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

Non-Fungible Costs

hawkebiaFeb 18, 2022, 5:15 PM

13 points

14 comments3 min readLW link

Why you are psychologically screwed up

R BrunsFeb 18, 2022, 5:07 PM

44 points

13 comments9 min readLW link

Simulation arguments

Joe CarlsmithFeb 18, 2022, 10:45 AM

44 points

16 comments65 min readLW link

Monks of Magnitude

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)Feb 18, 2022, 7:48 AM

114 points

50 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

[Question] [untitled post]

dawangyFeb 18, 2022, 7:06 AM

1 point

4 comments1 min readLW link

Implications of automated ontology identification

Alex Flint, adamShimi and Robert Miles

Feb 18, 2022, 3:30 AM

69 points

27 comments23 min readLW link

A scheme for sampling durable goods first-hand before making a purchase

riceissaFeb 17, 2022, 11:36 PM

29 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Is the competition/cooperation between symbolic AI and statistical AI (ML) about historical approach to research / engineering, or is it more fundamentally about what intelligent agents “are”?

Edward HammondFeb 17, 2022, 11:11 PM

1 point

1 comment2 min readLW link

The Kindness Project

soth02Feb 17, 2022, 8:24 PM

4 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Interlude: On Realness

LoganStrohlFeb 17, 2022, 7:02 PM

63 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

Covid 2/17/22: Coasting Downwards

ZviFeb 17, 2022, 3:20 PM

32 points

10 comments28 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Twitter thread on postrationalists

Eli TyreFeb 17, 2022, 9:02 AM

143 points

32 comments5 min readLW link

REPL’s and ELK

scottviteriFeb 17, 2022, 1:14 AM

9 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

An analogy as the midwife of thermodynamics

adamShimiFeb 16, 2022, 9:34 PM

30 points

10 comments7 min readLW link

[Link] Eric Schmidt’s new AI2050 Fund

Aryeh EnglanderFeb 16, 2022, 9:21 PM

32 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Convoy Continued

ZviFeb 16, 2022, 2:40 PM

28 points

15 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Compute Trends Across Three eras of Machine Learning

Jsevillamol, Pablo Villalobos, lennart, Marius Hobbhahn, Tamay Besiroglu and anson.ho

Feb 16, 2022, 2:18 PM

94 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

[Intro to brain-like-AGI safety] 4. The “short-term predictor”

Steven ByrnesFeb 16, 2022, 1:12 PM

64 points

11 comments13 min readLW link

Why Doesn’t Healthcare Improve Health?

George3d6Feb 16, 2022, 11:28 AM

63 points

19 comments12 min readLW link

(www.epistem.ink)

[Question] How do you think about mildly technical people trying to advance science and technology?

Cui16 Feb 2022 3:43 UTC

7 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Acoustic vs Electric Mandolin

jefftk16 Feb 2022 2:20 UTC

9 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Manifesto: The Land is our Birthright (inspired by the Lars Doucet Georgism book review)

talelore15 Feb 2022 23:50 UTC

−21 points

7 comments7 min readLW link

REPL’s: a type signature for agents

scottviteri15 Feb 2022 22:57 UTC

25 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

The Three Little Piggies of Rationality

Sam Enright15 Feb 2022 20:36 UTC

13 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Bazant: An alternate covid calculator

Elizabeth15 Feb 2022 19:50 UTC

24 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)